Nice to see SR-71 17973 is still looking like new.Wasn't this the one that broke the record for crossing the Atlantic in under two hours when it
visited our Farnborough airshow in the 1970s? (or was it 17972?)

The best thing about the '71s was watching them start up.No namby-pamby compressed air here,just a couple of Chrysler V8s on the back of a truck to
get the fans spinning.

originally posted by: Imagewerx
Nice to see SR-71 17973 is still looking like new.Wasn't this the one that broke the record for crossing the Atlantic in under two hours when it
visited our Farnborough airshow in the 1970s? (or was it 17972?)

The D-21 was carried by a modified SR-71 re-named the M-21. They were never meant to be recovered. They would eject their payload (film canisters) to
be recovered in mid air and then self destruct.
Only 4 D-21's ever flew operationally, all had failures of some kind IIRC.

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